In case you missed it, poker champion Annie Duke was on The Colbert Report. She was a surprisingly good guest, rolling with the chaos that is a Colbert interview. Some guests just can’t handle the sheer over-the-topness of the show. You should check out the Comedy Central site later to see if they have the clip online.
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11/24/2008
Newsweek’s Daniel Gross explains the Consumer Price Index (here’s the official BLS site) in a very simple video. I could do without the goofy sound effects, but it’s a good, 2 minute explanation of how the government tracks inflation.
Per David Simon’s Berkeley talk, though, the video doesn’t go into why this matters. Perhaps they’ll cover that in the next installment of the Economics 101 series.
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